Assess the significance of the short term consequences of the Emancipation Edict from 1861 to 1881 The Emancipation Edict issued by Alexander II was of greatest significance to the effects on the people of Russia socially. Although the social effects of the edict were of the greatest significance‚ the economic impact on the country and the political effect on the Tsarist regime cannot be overlooked. Kropotkin suggests that Emancipation had positive social consequences for the Russian people in source
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The AAM reacted to the injustice policies of the Apartheid regime. The Apartheid began to admit a need for change. The Apartheid government introduced reforms to keep South Africa under white control. The Anti-Apartheid movement played an important role in forcing Botha to introduce the reforms. International businesses disinvested from South Africa and this was a threat because the economy was dependent on the international businesses. The majority population did not receive rights into the tricameral
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1905 Russian Revolution At the beginning of the 20th century the Russian industrial employee worked on average an 11 hour day (10 hours on Saturday). Conditions in the factories were extremely harsh and little concern was shown for the workers’ health and safety. Attempts by workers to form trade unions were resisted by the factory owners and in 1903‚ a priest‚ Father Georgi Gapon‚ formed the Assembly of Russian Workers. Within a year it had over 9‚000 members. 1904 was a particularly bad year
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How effective was opposition to governments in Russia throughout the period 1855-1964? In 1855‚ opposition to the Tsarist Government lacked an effective unifying ideology. This remained the case throughout the 1855-1964 period‚ even once the communists had taken power. A key contributing factor towards this was the lack of unity opposition possessed. Opposition throughout the period came from several sources‚ however it was dominated by division in opinion and ideology‚ only fully uniting in the
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was the opposition to the state more often unsuccessful than successful in the period 1855 – 1964? Divided opposition. One reason why opposition to the state between 1855 and 1964 was mostly unsuccessful is the divided nature of oppositional forces. One example of this is the Civil War of 1918 where Richard Pipes argued it was a ‘foregone conclusion’ that the Reds would win. The Whites were made up of many different oppositional groups such as the SRs‚ Liberals looking for a tsarist revival
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Explain why in 1905 revolution broke out in Russia. (12 Mark) The 1905 revolution in Russia was the result of the unrest in the country created by an Autocratic Rule in Russia in the prior years. The emancipation and the reforms of Alexander II were followed by the repression by Alexander III; he refused to consider political reforms and was highly autocratic‚ meanwhile many groups demanded a further reform. The society of Russia wanted change to improve their living conditions however Alexander
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conscripts had been sent to fight overseas during peacetime. In May 1966‚ the first conscripted soldier was killed in action. He was Private Errol Wayne Noack and he was 21 years of age. Early protests against conscription had come from religious groups and members of the Australian Communist Party. Conscription soon became a focus of the anti-war movement‚ with protest organizations urging men not to register and to resist the ‘draft’ (the lottery of death). People who refused to be conscripted
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Explain why Alexander III introduced reactionary policies after 1881. (12) The years leading up to 1881 were fraught with political opposition and threats of revolution. The autocracy was being threatened and publicly questioned by groups such as groups of student radicals like ‘the Organisation’. They used their highly intellectualised reasoning to try and mould the public opinion to accept rebellion. From 1860‚ students offered high level unrest and eventually die to the unrest‚ Russian educated
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They told their troops to do some inexcusable things more than once. One example of this is on January 5‚ 1905 when the Tsar’s troops opened fire and killed more than one thousand people. They opened fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers in St. Petersburg that was led by Father George Gapon. The demonstrators were trying to improve work conditions and
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dangers to the tsarist government of Russia from 1900 to the outbreak of war in 1914? The Russia Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian revolution of 1917. Last Tsar was Nicholas ll Romanov. The First World War began in 1914 and lasted until 1918 in Europe. It involved the entire world’s great power‚ UK France and Russia against Germany‚ Italy‚ and Austria-Hungary. In the following information there shall be an analysis how serious were the dangers to the tsarist government of
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